> If the file originated on a non-IBM platform the rules might have been > different there.
Not to be a last word freak, but we're discussing the behavior of z/OS Comm Server when storing data in its own file system. The rules for processing data on non-IBM platforms don’t enter into it. Maybe I should open that PMR myself. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FTP variable block dataset from z/OS to Windows and back > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:53:02 -0500, Steven St.Jean wrote: > > > >An FTP server has no business using a common subroutine for all > >transfer modes. Data transformation is half the job. (I know; I used > >to be responsible for one.) > > > Granted, but: > > >> And they might consider it an incompatible behavior. It might break > >> end user code... > > > >If end-user code cannot handle empty VB records, the code would obviously > have the same problem with original file. > > > If the file originated on a non-IBM platform the rules might have been > different there. Surely no BCTR; EX; MVC problems. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
